re: St Louis Mayor wants to hold business owners accountable for violent crime near stores

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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones plans to hold local businesses accountable for violent crime outside their establishments, she told Action News 5.

Her comments came while attending a meeting of the Black Mayors’ Coalition on Crime. The group, launched this week by Memphis, Tennessee Mayor Paul Young, aims to “harness the collective power of black mayors across the nation to fight crime” and includes 21 leaders of cities across the country.

We have a lot of violence around convenience stores and gas stations,” Jones said of St. Louis. “So how can we hold those business owners accountable and also bring down crime? Some of the things we’re already doing, we’re finding that other mayors are doing as well.”

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St. Louis, huh? The same city which prosecuted Mark and Patricia McCloskey in 2020 simply for standing their ground and threatening to shoot a marauding band of Black Lives Matters protesters who had broken into their secured neighborhood and were trespassing on their premises striking fear for the safety of the McCloskeys. Now the mayor of St. Louis wants the business owners to do exactly what the Mcloskeys were prosecuted and convicted of doing. Guaranteed the mayor was entirely supportive of the criminal charges lodged against the couple in 2020.